Multi-tasking? No thanks.
Multi-schmulti "I'm just multi-tasking" is a phrase that annoys me like no other. I don't think I've ever heard a man use the word about himself, but then 'multi-tasking', according…
Bach on Mars
For the curious, this is what Bach on Mars would sound like, given the local gases etc. I’m glad there are scientists out there working out this important stuff.
Why music?
Waiting in the check-out queue at Sainsburys the other day, I was mesmerized by the sight of a lardy teenage girl standing – or rather pulsating and jerking compulsively like…
On Mendelssohn, Hampson, and ‘musical music’
Hello world, happy new year. Though I say it myself, I rather liked my Advent Calendar of 2008. It’s nicely ironic that I should have begun it with ‘Solving Musical…
A Little Night Music
To the Menier Chocolate Factory for dinner & Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music with Chris & parents and John from Atlanta. I can’t remember ever walking out of a…
Advent 25: And the last word…
…goes to John O’Brien. I could never pinpoint why John’s classes, and the experience of working with him was quite so different to every other teacher. Then one day, he…